JEFFREY L. CURTIS, M.D.
Professor of Internal Medicine
Chief, Pulmonary Service, VA Medical Center

Education and Training: M.D., Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC Residency: Johns Hopkins Bayview Campus (formerly Baltimore City Hospitals) Clinical and Research Training: Research Associate, Clinical Immunology, NIA, NIH, Baltimore, MD Pulmonary and Pulmonary Immunology Fellowships, University of California - San Francisco Major Clinical Interests: Obstructive lung disease, especially surgical therapy; pneumonia; lung cancer. Major Research Interests: Regulation of pulmonary host defense and immune responses though lymphocyte recruitment and apoptosis; macrophage phagocytosis.

· Milik AM, Beuchner-Maxwell VA, Sonstein J, Kim S, Seitzman GD, Beals TF, Curtis JL.  Lung lymphocyte elimination by apoptosis in the murine response to intratracheal particulate antigen.  J Clin Invest 99:1082-1091, 1997. 

· Curtis JL, Sonstein J, Craig RA, Todt JC, Knibbs RN, Polak T, Bullard DC, Stoolman LM.  Subset-specific reductions in lung lymphocyte accumulation following intratracheal antigen challenge in endothelial selectin-deficient mice.  J Immunol  169: 2570-9, 2002.

· Todt JC, Hu B, Punturieri A, Sonstein J, Polak T, Curtis JL. Activation of Protein Kinase C beta II by the stereo-specific phosphatidylserine receptor is required for phagocytosis of apoptotic thymocytes by resident murine tissue macrophages.  J Biol Chem 277:35906-14, 2002. 

· Curtis JL Punturieri A.  Enhancing anti-tumor immunity peri-operatively: a matter of timing, cooperation, and specificity.  Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 28: 541-545, 2003.

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